Group sessions are such a great idea, and I’m surprised that medical practitioners haven’t really pushed this on the island. If not medical practitioners, maybe associations could host mass seminars for diagnosed people and their family members. Seminars for people with CD not only about the gluten-free diet, per se, but on physical activity, children, sleep, chronic pain, food cravings, associated conditions, and other not-so-published mass experiences that people with CD often face alone.

“Instead of the physician repeating the same advice over and over, and patients asking the same questions about the same health concerns, group visits are meant to forge a new way for patients to benefit from a two-hour appointment that would probably take several individual visits apiece to cover.”